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Pledging Support for Volcano-Ravaged Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, General Assembly Also Adopts First-Ever Draft on Global Drowning Prevention, Four Other Texts Format Speakers Discuss Impact of Rapid Technological Change on Sustainable Development The General Assembly, adopting four resolutions and one decision this morning, pledged its support for all those affected by a series of devastating recent volcano eruptions on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, designated ...

Citrine Informatics Continues to Gain Momentum with Strong Q1 2021 Citrine Informatics, the leading AI and smart data management software platform for materials and chemicals, announced a record quarter for new customers and renewals, new strategic partnerships, and the launch of an executive webinar series in the first quarter of 2021. Customer growth Citrine delivered a record Q1 in key company performance metrics including total bookings, orders, upsells conversions. Total Q1 booking value w...

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Stephen Broadberry 20 April 2021 As a result of recent work on historical national accounting, it is now possible to establish more firmly the timing of the Great Divergence of living standards between Europe and Asia in the 18th century. This column shows that there was a European Little Divergence as Britain and the Netherlands overtook Italy and Spain, and an Asian Little Divergence as Japan overtook China and India. The Great Divergence occurred because Japan grew more slowly than B...

In this tenth and final article in our Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws series, we will look back through the previous nine articles and revisit the topics covered in each of them. Our journey begins with the first article, The Foundations, first published by IT World Canada on January 13, 2020. From there, we’ll retrace our journey through our other posts to date. The Foundations (January 13, 2020) In our first article, we described and contextualized the foundational structures of ...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) is a techno-infused discourse around which high-level discussions of the future have come to revolve. The vision depicted by the 4th IR is one of exponential technological change and convergence, a scene in which disruptive discoveries and their implementation occur simultaneously across the physical, digital and biological spheres. This article examines the development of the 4th IR and assesses the neoliberal logic behind it. Through a discourse analys...

Vivek Wadhwa, technology entrepreneur and bestselling author. After a yearlong hiatus, The University of Texas at Arlington’s Maverick Speakers Series is back in a new virtual format for its 13th season. Vivek Wadhwa, technology entrepreneur and bestselling author, kicks off the new Virtual Maverick Speakers Series this month. The talk will be livestreamed at uta.edu/maverickspeakers and is free to watch. Wadhwa will speak on “Navigating Technological Change at Light Speed” on Thursday, M...

Economy Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland Among various barriers to increasing employment of older workers, this paper focuses on two notable ones that are relevant for the future of work. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second, several countries have in place various labour market ...

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The Atlantic As “Do the research” becomes a rallying cry for conspiracy theorists, classical information literacy is not enough. Adam Maida / The Atlantic For too long now, shared reality has been fracturing before our eyes. Eli Pariser’s concept of the “filter bubble” is already a decade old. Yochai Benkler’s research on propaganda networks finds that the roots of our epistemic crisis predate even the existence of the social web. The origins of this broken informational environment...